Re: Fortran vs. C (was Re: Ken & Klaus.)
From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (spamtrap_at_library.lspace.org.invalid)
Date: 09/24/04
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:29:15 -0300
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09/20/2004
at 11:50 AM, nessuno@wigner.berkeley.edu (nessuno) said:
>Sounds like from what you have above that Fortran 95 passes length
>arguments along with array pointers. Sort of like what PL/I used to
>do with strings (they were called "dope vectors", i.e., the
>structures containing the length and pointer to the actual
>string).
Dope vectors were PL/I (F) technology; later PL/I compilers used
separate locators and descriptors, so that arrays with the same shape
could share the descriptor.
>So in an ideal world, we'd have just one language for
>both scientific programming and everything else.
That was the intent with PL/I. I'm hoping that the PL/I front end to
gcc flies.
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